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The Secret to Strategic Networking

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Want more visibility at networking events and in your community?

Do this.

PS: And don't "wing" your introduction!

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Refreshing energy is front and center for 2025.

Which employees, including yourself, will excel beyond your wildest dreams in the coming months?🤩

Let's empower your team to excel together and help younger staff build confidence with the superpowers below.

Emerging leaders with under 10 years of industry experience will become unstoppable.🎯

➡️These 5 superpowers are a good jumping-off point.

Charisma. People with this quality have allure, a special style, charm, light-heartedness, and magnetism. Others quickly recognize there's something interesting about their personality that's attractive. 🔷A/E/C PRO TIP: Most babies aren't born with charisma. We can learn this trait and reinvent ourselves to be more personable and confident. For example, notice role models and mentors who have positively impacted you. How do

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Have you ever felt your voice didn't matter in a room full of experts?

Younger architects and engineers often feel they must have all the answers in presentations and meetings.

Not true. 😮

The need for perfection is exhausting and expensive when you lose bids to more confident competitors.

• It's comforting to know that no one knows everything.

• And that's more than OK; it's liberating.

An architect in this month's Top Tier Communicator Training said:

"I keep falling into a trap, feeling I'm not good enough, and I didn't even know it. Now it's clear, and I have all the puzzle pieces to improve."

Admitting when you don't know something can be empowering.

Your firm will earn respect and trust when staff says with humility and honesty:

"I don't know, and I'll find out within the hour."